St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08

Massachusetts and Rhode Island is less
than i'll any Southern states. The
speaker added that the cry is
only gotten up by those who
believe in the doctrine of eternal hate
toward the South, a spirit that is doing
more than any other one cause to retard
the progress and prosperity OF the cOun-
try. 1t is high time these attempts to
keep alive the hatreds and enmitieS
growing out Of the war should cool, and
that the people should turn their 'atten-
ton to matters that will promote the
HAPPINESS AND PR SPERTTY
of all. y foreigner, or one unacqualnted
with our politics, attending Republi-
can convention or reading Republican
paper for the first time, would conclude
the South was foreign country with
which we are at war. rather than part
this government, alfdwould be surprised
upon going down there to find these
people peaceful and quiet and trying
to build up the waste places and repair
the ravageS OF war. neglecting politics
almost entirely. The question of pen
SiOning soldiers of the late war was re-
viewed at some length, and the work of
the department under Dudley is con-
traSted with General Blacks admins
tratiOn, and the result is considered
sufficient answer to the campaign cry of
1854, that if Cleveland were elected no
more pensions would be paid. A curl
Gus feature of this pension business
was the fact that the Republican party
never knew that it had failed to do JUS
tice to the soldiers in the matter of pen
SiOnS until after it was put out of power.
The thought never occurred to the Re-
publicanS during the twenty-fOur years
of their lease of power that the
Liberal. CHANGES
in the laws made by the Democrats
were Just and proper, nor that the pen
sion office should examine and pass upon
claims with prOmptneSS and liberality,
as is now done, instead of holding
claims back and delaying their settle
ment, as was the case under Republican
rule. There were to-day many hun
dredS of soldiers in Iowa, as well as in
other states, who had furnished all the
proof required by the pension office so
long ago that they had concluded their
claims had been rejected, and they had
almost ceased to think of them, until
since President Cleveland's administra-
ton begnn, when, to tfieir great
surprise, in short time their
claims were allowed and paid. We
declare in our platform in favor of
''such legislation as will make generous
provisions for union soldiers and sail
Ors;" and the past shows we mean what
we, say: The arrearage pension act,
and, in fact, nearly every liberal pen
sion law, was devised and passed by
A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
of representatives, while it will be re-
membered that it was Gen. Grant who
vetoed the equalization bounty bill.
Upon the liquor question Maj. Ander-
son stands Squarely upon the state plat
form, and speaks 'out emphatically for
local option, with minimum license of
$500. mo one deplores the evils re-
sulting from the excessive use of in
tOXlcatlng liquors more than |
do, but in dealing with the
liquor traffic we should aim at something
practical and not sacrifice real benefits
for an impractical theory. Prohibition
has been tried for many years, and the
law has been amended at nearly every
session of the legislature since it was
first enacted, and still the demand of
the PrOhlbitiOniStS is for more stringent
laws. After so many years of frstitless
efforts to enforce a law that a majority
of people know to be a failure. what is
the result? As much liquor is sold and
drank as would be under license sys-
TEN and no revenue whatever is derived
from it. Prohibition has failed to pro-
as the people want he pays nothing for
the privilege, Notwithstanding the
ENORMOUS PROFITS -
derived from the traffic. 1t is the be-
lief of very large and intelligent por-
ton of our people that these odious
laws have been the means of driving
out thousands of our most industrious
and lawabiding citizens, and have
nearly stopped immigration to the state
and worked great injury to our people
Iowa is still a young state-less than
fifty years old-with soil as fertile as
the valley of the Nile and a eli
mate as healthful as can be found.
1t has over 5000 miles of
railway-more than any state in the
union except one. 1t is situated on the
line of commerce across the continent
and is traversed by large number of
the great trunk lines of railway, and it's
population is not overcrowded; in fact,
large portion of the state is
still unsettled, waiting for the
emigrant and pioneer III search of cheap
homes. But they do not come.
They go to other and less fertile states
and territories, where they will not be
subjected to the vexatious annoyances
which wou Id be visited upon them in
Iowa."